The world leader in beauty, L’Oréal is present in 130 countries on five continents. Our 32 international brands have allowed us to devote ourselves solely to one business: beauty, with a mission to provide the best in cosmetics innovation to all women and men around the world. We want to bring beauty to all people. Our ambition by 2020 is to win over another one billion consumers around the world by creating the cosmetic products that meet the infinite diversity of their beauty needs and desires through continued digital innovation. L’Oréal encourages diversity and sustainable, ethical sourcing for all our products and we have reduced our emissions by approx. 50% since 2005.Our brands are leaders in beauty, and we are looking for you to lead the change you want to see in L’Oréal.

Sub Contract Planning Manager

Based in our Hammersmith head-office, you will be a key member of our fast paced L’Oreal UK & Ireland team.We are looking for a Sub Contract planning manager to join the Shared services department looking after the Consumer and Active Cosmetics divisions. This is an operational role for a high calibre professional to work in close proximity to the marketing and purchasing teams. You will project manage the co-pack activities and add value to the business units by providing packaging, production planning expertise and identifying cost saving initiatives.

YOU WILL:

•Act as the key point of contact for the divisions for the end to end process; exchange of ideas, costing exercises and promotional planning regarding sub contract activities.

•To provide knowledge and best practice advice to the Marketing and Commercial teams regarding sub contract

activities, ensuring consistency of process across the 2 divisions.

•To offer advice on feasibility for any new subcontract ideas raised by Marketing or Commercial teams

•Build and manage a rate card with Purchasing to serve as a reference for future jobs

•Manage the subcontracting workflow on Sharepoint

•Work closely with Purchasing team to identify the best subcontractors to partner with

•To be a key driver during Christmas gifting planning for sets produced in the UK

•Ensure project briefs are executed, on time, in full and to the expected standard of quality. This should be completed in collaboration with counterparts in the warehouse and the supply planning teams

•Identify opportunities for improvements in sub contract category spend that add value in terms of financial, EHS and

service to L’Oréal.

•Lead on cross divisional continuous improvement projects.

•Take the lead in researching and developing new innovative ways of working and utilization of new technologies.

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YOU HAVE:

•Strong organisation skills

•Excellent written and verbal communications

•Experience of a FMCG environment with commercial understanding of procurement & co-packing operations

•Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to deal with senior management to convince and influence effectively

•Entrepreneurial attitude to problem solving and overcoming barriers

•Negotiation skills and ability to work on complex negotiations & manage contracts through their life-cycle